Health professionals, including social workers, community health workers, public health workers, and licensed health care providers, share common interests and responsibilities in promoting health equity and improving social determinants of health-the conditions in which people live, work, play, and learn. We summarize the underlying causes of health inequity and comparatively poor health outco...

BACKGROUND Health system planners aim to pursue the three goals of Triple Aim: 1) reduce health care costs; 2) improve population health; and 3) improve the care experience. Moreover, they also need measures that can reliably predict future health care needs in order to manage effectively the health system performance. Yet few measures exist to assess Triple Aim and predict future needs at a he...

This chapter examines the roles of Telemedicine, Triple Aim and Team Care in Improving Clinical outcomes in Healthcare Settings. Data sources included a review of the literature to identify methodologies, findings and recommendations for utilization and implementation in education and practice.

Achieving the goals of health care reform – described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as the ‘‘Triple Aim’’ – will place new demands on the health care workforce. Interprofessional team-based care, quality and process improvement, and population health management are not skills that have been emphasized in traditional health professions education and training. Preparing health profe...

T he Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim Framework has been gaining ground since its launch in 2008 as an innovative vision for health system reform. The framework articulates a set of goals in which health system costs and healthcare quality must be balanced against the needs of the population and improved health outcomes for all. Since its inception, this balanced approach to he...

I n 2004, President George W. Bush called for interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) for the majority of Americans within 10 years and established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT), directed by Dr. David Brailer, whose Framework for Strategic Action (1) envisioned a consumer-centric, informationrich health care system through adoption of HIT....

Despite the rapid growth of electronic health data, most data systems do not connect individual patient records to data sets from outside the health care delivery system. These isolated data systems cannot support efforts to recognize or address how the physical and environmental context of each patient influences health choices and health outcomes. In this article we describe how a geographic ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Health information technology (health IT) and health technology, more broadly, offer tremendous promise for connecting, synthesizing, and sharing information critical to improving health care delivery, reducing health system costs, and achieving personal and community health. While efforts to spur adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) among US practices and hosp...

We are in a time of increasing concern about unsustainable increases in health care costs to Medicare, Medicaid, employers and individuals. At the same time, more than half of patients with mental health needs do not receive care in any given year [1], and untreated mental disorders can be important drivers of high health care costs. As in the rest of health care, we are challenged with achievi...